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For the nose, here is my stuff, but I am a thousand times less than expert Bear: For me, longboard, the trigger was when instead of trying to "hover" on the nose, I started a to "bite" the nose into the wave by pressing firmly on the side, and have a feeling of "piloting airplane wing" as if the nose of your board that you had your hand through the door of your car "is the plane." Technically this means that it is necessary that the nose is well in the steep part of the wave, so quite high, so you have to force the edge to keep it there, even if it does not show necessarily the photos. If you let the board will only stall it will get too low, where there is no energy to carry you, you feel the nose "push water" Look at this picture (it's not me Photo :-) in wave height and pressing the inner edge, we can see that the nose does not grow water, the lift is given by edging. The board is almost a right angle to the surface of the water, you must have the feeling of being on a ledge at the edge of a vertical wall, and not on a skimboard has a flat glide. Driving is very dynamic, it is constantly being taken to adjust the lateral edge. 
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